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Audit Notes: NYT CEO search, Private Prisons, Morozov
June 22, 2012 06:28 PMBloomberg News has new details on The New York Times Company's search for a CEO, which includes "aspirational" folks like Eric Schmidt of Google: New York Times Co., seeking a chief executive officer who can reverse a six-year sales... Continue reading
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Bloomberg blows the whistle on the IRS
June 22, 2012 06:50 AMBloomberg News has an eye-opening investigation into what we now know is the failed IRS Whistleblowers Program. That program is supposed to pay people who tip the IRS off to tax fraud 30 percent of any recovery, but Jesse... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Smart Money, NYT CEO, sushi chefs and nola.com
June 21, 2012 09:22 PMDow Jones is shutting down Smart Money magazine, laying off most of the staff and going to a digital-only format just two years after it bought the half it didn't own from Hearst. Adweek: “What consumer wants financial advice... Continue reading
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Audit Radio: Cleveland edition
June 21, 2012 05:02 PMAudit Chief Dean Starkman talked about the future of newspapers on Cleveland's NPR affiliate WCRN this morning. "Sound of Ideas" host Mike McIntyre talks to Dean, as well as Plain Dealer managing editor Thom Fladung, Tom Skoch, editor of... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: The U-6ers, Jamie’s corporate welfare, The Guardian’s future
June 21, 2012 06:50 AMI like this Michael Cooper piece in The New York Times on the folks who don't show up in the headline unemployment numbers (which are bad enough as it is). These are basically U-6ers—workers who want full-time work but... Continue reading
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Another A1 Times-Picayune press release
June 20, 2012 06:50 AMNot content with dominating the Times-Picayune's front page on Thursday with a press release from its editor, the paper ran an awfully similar piece by the new publisher on page one Sunday headlined "The Times-Picayune and NOLA.com... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Echoes of the 1930s, gilded bubble, access journalism
June 20, 2012 01:55 AMOn the echoes of the 1930s tip, the University of Athens's Aristides Hatzis writes in the Financial Times: Despite the narrow victory of a centrist party in Sunday’s vote, almost every day extremist violence breaks out in Athens and... Continue reading
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Microsoft’s live-action press release
June 19, 2012 08:00 AMYesterday, Microsoft got a bunch of tech journalists to go to Hollywood for what it promised would be a major announcement: The company was launching its own tablet PC. And what a launch it was—at least for the flacks and... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Very profitable staff cuts; Dimon’s crisis bet; Obama and trade
June 18, 2012 06:50 AMBloomberg's Edmund Lee gets a great quote from the editor of Time Incorporated's Sports Group, Terry McDonell, on why Sports Illustrated is reducing its staff of reporters and editors via buyouts: “Everything is about money eventually and being more... Continue reading
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The Times-Picayune’s front-page press release
June 15, 2012 06:50 AMYou know the backlash is serious when the Times-Picayune wraps itself in Katrina and puts a press release/editorial by the editor on page one of the paper: Great journalism not bound by medium Katrina shows promise of... Continue reading
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New Orleans meets the Hamster Wheel
June 14, 2012 06:50 AMThe gutting of New Orleans beloved Times-Picayune and Advance Publications' plan to turn it into a sort of major market AnnArbor.com looks set to bring journalism built on "motion for motion’s sake... volume without thought" to a city built on... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Jamie’s juice, a new Glass Steagall, U-T San Diego
June 13, 2012 07:57 PMProPublica has a sweet piece listing the connections between JPMorgan Chase and the Senate Banking Committee, which didn't exactly grill CEO Jamie Dimon in his appearance today. Many lawmakers are holding up the losses as evidence of the need... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: bad banks edition
June 13, 2012 06:50 AMGretchen Morgenson writes about how the interest-rate swaps Wall Street encouraged government agencies to take out are costing governments billions of dollars a year: These swaps were supposed to save the public some money. And, for a while, they... Continue reading
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Owens’s straw man army
June 12, 2012 10:32 AMHoward Owens's 5,200 word CJR riposte to David Simon on paywalls deserve a reply of its own (outside of its comments section, which at 126 and counting, you should take some time to read). Owens’s ideas are... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Decline of Labor Edition
June 8, 2012 07:57 PMThe New Yorker's John Cassidy writes a smart post on the aftermath of labor's big defeat in Wisconsin and what it shows about "America's Class War: Billionaires Against the Unions." Exploiting public concerns about debts and deficits that have... Continue reading
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The Disingenuous WSJ Opinion Pages
June 8, 2012 11:02 AMPhil Gramm and Columbia B-school Dean and Romney economic adviser Glenn Hubbard take to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal to repeat just about every canard of the crisis. Not many people have more responsibility for the... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Whither The Guardian, Blodget breathes fire, CNBC flop
June 8, 2012 01:52 AMThis long New Statesman profile of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, which also delves into the financial woes of his paper, is very good: The Guardian of today is almost entirely Rusbridger’s creation. Not in the sense that he strides... Continue reading
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The Seattle Times sinks a local polluter
June 7, 2012 06:50 AMMost business investigations focus on corporations and investors. And for good reason: They're the ones with the money and the power. But sometimes a small business owner can have an outsized impact too. Here in Seattle three weeks ago, a... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Amazon turns on the A/C, Fairfax’s taxes, Ponzify
June 6, 2012 11:53 PMThe Morning Call's Spencer Soper follows up on his Amazon sweatshop investigation, and reports that the company has since spent a whopping $52 million installing air conditioners in its warehouses: Donna Hoffman, co-director of the Sloan Center for Internet... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: that 1930s feeling, Facebook small fry, Carter’s Grove
June 5, 2012 08:21 PMMartin Wolf's hair is on fire in the Financial Times: Suppose that in June 2007 you had been told that the UK 10-year bond would be yielding 1.54 per cent, the US Treasury 10-year 1.47 per cent and the... Continue reading
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